This report is about the activities of the FRDC’s Aquatic Animal Health and Biosecurity Subprogram (AAHBS) for the period 2016-2020.
In the period 2016-20, AAHBS has managed 27 projects concerned with aquatic animal health and biosecurity. AAHBS also provided advice on other aquatic...
This project was carried out by scientists from AAHL CSIRO (Dr Serge Corbeil) and from LaTrobe
University (Drs Karla Helbig and Subir Sarker). After discovering the existence of an abalone species
(Päua - Haliotis iris) resistant to AVG our research team based in Geelong and Melbourne...
The CSIRO Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) Fish Diseases Laboratory (AFDL), in collaboration with Biosecurity Queensland, conducted a laboratory-based evaluation of commercially available point-of-care (POC) tests designed to detect white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) in the field. The...